Ice pick



A Jun 2l, 1932. c. LORBER 1,863,801

` ICE PICK Filed oct. 6, 1930 Ffqz 7&4.

Zar/es fer 1 Patented June 21, 1932 UNITED STATES CHARLES Leanne, or LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY ICE PICK Application filed October 6, 1930. Serial No. 486,754.

This invention relates to household articles and has special reference to a combined ice pick and bottle opener.

One important object of the invention is to provide an improved general construction of devices of this character.

A second important object of the invention is to provide a novel device of this kind having a bottle opener at one end of a shank and lf3 an ice pick point at the other, the shank having a sliding handle thereon for striking blows on the pick and for obtaining leverage on the bottle opener.

Y lVith the above and other objects in View,

i5 as will be hereinafter described, the invention consists in general oi' certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts described fully, illustrated in the accompany- 9J ing drawing and specically claimed.

ters of Vreference indicate like parts in the several views, and:

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through one iorm of pick constructed in accordance 25 with this invention.

Finger 2 is a section on the line 2*2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

33 Figure 4 is a longitudinal section through one modification ofthe device.

Figure 5 s a similar view of a second modiication.

Figure 6 is a similar view of a third modiw tication.

Figure 7 is a side elevation of a modified form of pick point.

In each form of this invention there is provided a tubular handle 1() having a cap 11 at its lower end provided with an opening axially alined with the handle and having a shank 12 slidable therethrough. All of these shanks are provided at their lower ends with a sharp point 13 forming an ice pick point. In the form shown in Figs. 1 to 5 the shank is grooved just above the point and a collar 14 is tted in the groove to receive blows Y caused by the handle being slid rapidly down :5G the shank. In Figure 1 the bore of the handle extends In the accompanying drawing like charac-V uniformly from end to end ther'eoiiand a cap 15 is provided at theupper end of this handle.

:other end on the-cap 15.

In lthe form shown in Figure'i the bore of the handle terminates in spaced relationto the top, and the shank isprovided witha '55 collar 2O and spring 21 as before,V the spring Y in this instance bearing at its upper end against the end of the bore.' This form is provided witha bottle opener eye22 having i lips 23 and being provided with apronged T0 Y shank V24 which is driven into the materialy `of the handle through asuitable `opening in a cap 25. l

In the forms shown in Figures 5 and 6 the bore of the handle extends from one end to the other thereof but the lower part'of this bore is small to t the shank 12 loosely while the upper part is suciently large to accommodate the spring 26 which bears at one end against a collar 27. '80 .i

In Figure 5 the upper end of the bore is closed by a cap 28 having the shank 29 of a bottle opener eye riveted thereto, the spring 26 bearing against the rivet. This eye is pro- Y Y vided with the usual lips 30.

In F i ure`6 a plain cap 31 close'sthe upper end of t e handle and the lower part of the shank just above the tapering point is iattened andformed to provide a'bcttle opener s hook 32 which/also serves as a collar or stop 90 to receive the blows of the handle.

Figure 7 Vshows a slight niodicationV of the shank and point wherein the collar 14k is eliminated, the point 13 being shouldered into the shank at 33 to form a stop to receive the handle blows. i

In using the device as an ice pick the point is placed on the ice and the handle reciprocated to strike a series of blows on the collar .n or stop. In using the forms shown in Fig`r roo ures 1, 4, and 5 as a bottle opener the top of the loop is placed over the bottle cap and the lips caught under an edge of the cap. An

upward prying movement on the handle will then remove the cap. It is to be observed that, in Figure l, the arrange-ment is such that the handle may be shifted to increase or decrease. the leverage by' moving from or toward the eye. In the form of Figure 6 the handle may also bevshifted in this man-V ner and this form is used by placing the point portion on top of the bottle cap, hooking the hook 32 under the cap edge and pry-.

ing up on the handle.

There has thus been provided a simple and efHcient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that minor changes maybe made in the form and construction of the invention without departing from the material spirit thereof. It is not, therefore, desired` to conine the invention to the exact `form herein shown and described, but it is desired y to includev all such as vproperly come within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what Y is claimed as new is:

An ice pick including a shank having one Y end pointed, a wooden Vhandle slidably mounted on said shank and having a longitudinal bore of greater diameter than said shankv and extending entirely through the handle, caps each iitte'd on a respective end of the handle and having an opening therein closely ysurrounding the shank, said caps litting on the outside of the ends of the Wooden handle to constitute ferrules'therefor atieach end and thereby Ito prevent splitting of theV vhandle by blows in eitherk direction, said shank extending through both caps, acollar fixed on the shank within the bore'and normally resting" against the cap adjacent Vthe shank point, a spring in said'bore surrounding the shank and bearing at one end against said collar and at its other end against the cap remote from the point, a strikin shoulder on the shank between the iirst co lar and point and adaptedfto be engaged bythe cap upon compression of the spring, and stop meansv on the remaining end of the shank adapted to engage the other cap upon comprotraction of the pointed end of the shank. i f

In testimony whereof I afiix my si nature. f

CHARLES Lon. ER; 

